Family and family therapy in the Netherlands.

This article describes how families are functioning in the Netherlands, and how family therapy is used in mental healthcare. In the open Dutch society, new ideas are easily incorporated, as exemplified by the rapid introduction and growth of family therapy in the 1980s. In recent decades, however, family therapy has lost ground to other treatment models that are more individually orientated, and adhere to stricter protocols.

Self-reported behavioral and socioemotional functioning of 11- to 18-year-old adolescents conceived by in vitro fertilization.

Objective: To evaluate the self-reported psychosocial well-being of 11- to 18-year-old adolescents who were conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and examine the role of IVF conception on behavior.

Design: Youth Self-Report (YSR) of 86 IVF and 97 control adolescents.

Setting: VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

Behavior and socioemotional functioning in 9-18-year-old children born after in vitro fertilization.

Objective: To evaluate the psychosocial well-being of 9-18-year-old IVF children. IVF alters fetal programming, with consequences for physical functioning. This also may apply to behavior.

An overview of studies on early development, cognition, and psychosocial well-being in children born after in vitro fertilization.

Objective: To examine whether sufficient research has been done and definite conclusions can be drawn on the psychological outcome of children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF), a review was performed of studies on early development, cognition, and psychosocial well-being in IVF children.

Method: PubMed and PsycINFO databases were searched. All English language studies up to 2006 addressing these topics were included.

School functioning in 8- to 18-year-old children born after in vitro fertilization.

The aim of this study was to examine the school functioning of 8- to 18-year-old children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF). We compared 233 children born after IVF to 233 matched control children born spontaneously from parents with fertility problems on measures of education level, general cognitive ability, school performance (need for extra help, repeating a grade, special education), and rates of learning and developmental disorders. No differences were found between IVF and control children on these measures of school functioning.